Stocking and method of making same



Aug. 1 E. w. DECKER 1-:r AL. 1,968,995

STOCKING AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME Filed March 4, 1932 2 Shets-$heet 1 INVENTOR EIIEHWDEEKEY A Lnuis LEviHE ATTORNEY Aug. 7, 1934. E. w. DECKER El AL 1,968,995

STOCKING AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME Filed Mar ch 4, 1952 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 7 Dan: I

INVENTOR E EllenM/Drgtiar 2& L115 ITEVII'IE Patented Aug. 7, 1934 OFFICE STOCKING AND gm'rnon OF MAKING Ellen W. Decker, South Orange, and Louis Levine, Jersey City,.N.-J., assignors to Julius Kayser & "00., New York, N. Y., a corporation of New York I l Application March 4,

1 Claim.

Our invention relates to a stocking of the type in which the leg portion is formed by cutting knitted fabric to the desired shape. In the manufacture of such stockings it has heretofore {been proposed to employ fiat knitted piece goods of non-run material for the leg and upper foot portions of the stocking, and to attach thereto a foot portion comprising a toe, heel and sole or under foot portion produced on a full-fashioned 1o -1' machine with the usual chain stitch or loops, or produced by piecing and seaming together a suitable knitted fabric to produce the toe, heel and sole or under-foot portion.

One object of our invention is to employ nonrun piece material cut to form the leg portion of the stocking and to extend around the foot to complete the sole or under-foot portion and to secure separate full fashioned toe and heel portions to the stocking thus produced. Another object of this invention is to employ for the leg and central foot portion of the stocking an openmesh material capable of stretching in any direction and extending around the under-foot portion of the stocking, so that the stocking foot may stretch toadapt itself to feet of different lengths.

Still another object of this invention is to cut the leg of the stocking from material produced on a circular knitting machine so that the upper part of the stocking utilizes the full width of the tubular knitted material.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists in the novel construction and in the novel method of manufacture as hereinafter described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings and particularly pointed out in the appended claim, it being understood that various changes may be made in minor details without departing from the spirit of the invenl tion or sacrificing any of the advantages thereof.

In the drawings, Figure 1 shows a strip of material cut into blanks in readiness for cutting to the proper shape;

Fig. 2 shows a piece of material cut in accordance with our invention;

Fig. 3 is a view of the same material folded along the line 3 of Fig. 2;

Fig. 4 shows a strip of tubular knitted material cut to provide the leg portion, upper hem,

' and central foot portion of the stocking;

Fig. 5 is a similar view, but showing the material cut with adjacent stockings reversed to save material;

Fig. 6 is a side view of the lower part of a stock- 1932, Serial No. 596,700 I (01. 2-239) ing having separate full-fashioned toe and heel inserts.

Referring to Figs. 1, 2, and 3 of the drawings, the strip of material 20, Fig. l, is preferably of warp-knitted, non-run, mesh or other like knitted fabric in the piece, and is out along the lines 21 so as to produce wedge-shaped pieces suitable for the production of the shape shown at Fig. 2. The blanks 22 are cut to the desired shape with recesses 23 to receive the heel piece and with curved concave edges 24 adapted to form the under-foot or sole portion of the stocking. Then the blank 22 is folded along the line 3 and the concave edges 24 are brought together and the extreme end edge 25 is adapted to receive the toe-piece of the stocking.

Figs. 4 and 5 of the drawings illustrate a modified method of cutting the material for the stockings. Fig. 4 shows a. section of tubular knitted fabric produced by a circular warp-knitting ma chine of any well-known type, and this material 26 is cut across the lines 27 to produce the individual stockings which are out along the lines 28 so as to form the heel recesses 29, the curved under-foot or sole portions 30, and the end edges 31 to which the toe-pieces are attached. These stocking blanks are preferably made sufiiciently long so that they may be folded along the line 32 to permit of the raw edge along the line 27 being seamed along the line 33 to form the upper hem or welt of the stocking. In the arrangement shown at Fig. 5 a section of similarly knitted tubular material is out along the lines 34, .35 to form the lower leg and ankle portions of the stockings, these portions being overlapped in order to avoid unnecessary waste of material, and so that the lines 36 separate the welt portions of adjacent stocking blanks. The stocking legs thus produced from tubular material are seamed along the back edges in the usual way from the heel to the point 3'7 and from these points 37 to the points 38 false seams may be provided in order to give all the appearances of the usual full-fashioned stocking.

Fig. 6 shows the lower or foot portion of the stocking after completion. The body of the stocking cut in the manner above described is provided with a toe section 39 produced on a fullfashioned machine, and with a heel portion 40 also produced on a full-fashioned machine; but these parts 39, 40 are not in any way connected with each other except through the medium of the intervening part 41 of the warp-knitted fabric which is preferably capable of stretching in any direction, so that the distance between the toe and heel parts 39, 40 may vary due to the stretch in the material 41, thus allowing of the stocking foot adjusting itself to the size of the foot of the wearer.

The present invention is particularly app1icable to stockings made from open-mesh material and produced on fiat or circular warpknitting machines in continuous pieces to be shaped and cut in the manner described, but. knitted fabrics of any other suitable type may be employed.

Although the drawings and the above-specification disclose the best mode in which we have contemplated embodying our invention, we desire to be in no way limited to the details of such disclosure for in the further practical application of our invention many changes in form or arrangement may be made as circumstances require or experience suggests, without departing from the spirit of the invention within the scope of the appended claim.

What we claim is:

A stocking comprising a piece of open mesh knitted material cut to form two heel recesses and having parts forming the leg, upper-foot and central sole or under-foot portions of the stocking, a full-fashioned pocket heel and a separate full-fashioned pocket toe both of closer knit material, stitching, seaming the edges of the said heel to the cut edges of the heel recesses in said material and seaming the edges of said toe to the cut edges of the material, with the sole or underfoot portion of the stocking interposed between the said heel and toe, and stitching seaming the meeting edges of the sole or under-foot portion of the material and the meeting edges of the material at the back of the leg.

ELLEN W. DECKER. LOUIS LEVINE. 

